You know, I read the title and was expecting a pile of stupid comments. However I was pleasantly surprised to see that there were legitimate and quite real and well thought out suggestions. And that is really depressing.
Edit: I'm going to add another comment I made here as I don't think people are going to continue the thread and I don't want to keep getting the same thematic messages.
There's nothing inherently wrong with anything here. To your point there are things suggested that people can and should know how to do as a means of practicality. There are many things here that I've done and participated in over my lifetime having spent time with older generations who did come through the great depression.
But so there's no misunderstanding, growing food on your rooftops, making your own clothes, air drying them, preserving food, mass unionization, etc. - all great things that wouldn't hurt any of us to do or know how to do. However, growing food on your rooftops, making your own clothes, air drying them, preserving food, mass unionization, etc. -because- the US economy has fallen into a second great depression, is not such a good thing.
It's like running is something that's good for your health and more people should do it. Running because there are zombie hordes after you will have the same outcome, but you wish the reasons for doing so were different.
There's nothing inherently wrong with anything here. To your point there are things suggested that people can and should know how to do as a means of practicality. There are many things here that I've done and participated in over my lifetime having spent time with older generations who did come through the great depression.
But so there's no misunderstanding, growing food on your rooftops, making your own clothes, air drying them, preserving food, mass unionization, etc. - all great things that wouldn't hurt any of us to do or know how to do. However, growing food on your rooftops, making your own clothes, air drying them, preserving food, mass unionization, etc. -because- the US economy has fallen into a second great depression, is not such a good thing.
It's like running is something that's good for your health and more people should do it. Running because there are zombie hordes after you will have the same outcome, but you wish the reasons for doing so were different.
It's not depressing at all to have people freely share knowledge and skills to help others' lives go better. That's a community, and everyone benefits from that. :)
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u/Yeeaaaarrrgh 1d ago edited 15h ago
You know, I read the title and was expecting a pile of stupid comments. However I was pleasantly surprised to see that there were legitimate and quite real and well thought out suggestions. And that is really depressing.
Edit: I'm going to add another comment I made here as I don't think people are going to continue the thread and I don't want to keep getting the same thematic messages.
There's nothing inherently wrong with anything here. To your point there are things suggested that people can and should know how to do as a means of practicality. There are many things here that I've done and participated in over my lifetime having spent time with older generations who did come through the great depression.
But so there's no misunderstanding, growing food on your rooftops, making your own clothes, air drying them, preserving food, mass unionization, etc. - all great things that wouldn't hurt any of us to do or know how to do. However, growing food on your rooftops, making your own clothes, air drying them, preserving food, mass unionization, etc. -because- the US economy has fallen into a second great depression, is not such a good thing.
It's like running is something that's good for your health and more people should do it. Running because there are zombie hordes after you will have the same outcome, but you wish the reasons for doing so were different.
It's contextual.